(The Associated Press circulated the following article on October 7.)
BRIDGEPORT, Neb. — Union Pacific work crews are busy today trying to get rail lines up and running after a coal train derailed nine miles east of Bridgeport, Nebraska, early yesterday.
U.P. spokesman Mark Davis says the 127-car train was traveling from Wyoming to Council Bluffs when 20 cars derailed, dumping tons of coal.
No one was hurt. The cause of the derailment is not known.
Davis says crews worked through yesterday to clear rail cars and begin replacing eleven-hundred feet of damaged track. He says one line reopened just before midnight, and a second line will be open today.